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This is all wrong, and ironic given your complaints elsewhere about misinformation on social media sites.

For example, moderators don't count for more than voters on HN. The site is moderated [1] but this is a sort of feedback mechanism to prevent the system from getting stuck in an uninteresting end-state (e.g. overwhelmed by the same few sensational stories over and over). The only thing we care about is keeping HN interesting for the community, and it's the community that decides what is interesting, not us.

The bit about users with 500+ karma is also wrong, but I doubt it makes sense to bother going further into explanations.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...